In 2024, the Goldman School of Public Policy launched a new Democracy Policy Initiative (DPI), which aims to protect, promote, and help deliver on the promise of our multi-racial democracy. The DPI serves as an intellectual and organizing hub for developing the leadership, strategies, networks, rigorous evidence, and actionable solutions necessary to ensure human flourishing. Made possible with generous support from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, the Levi Strauss Foundation, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, and the Peter E. Haas, Jr. Fund, the Democracy Policy Initiative is about doing the “hard work of democracy,” rooted in collaborative multi-sector partnerships, rigorous research, education, and policy innovation.
GSPP Dean David Wilson, along with Angela Glover Blackwell (GSPP faculty member, PolicyLink Founder-in-residence, and DPI Chief Vision Officer), Jake Grumbach (GSPP Associate Professor and director of the Democracy Policy Lab), Amy Lerman (Michelle Schwartz Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Executive Director of the Possibility Lab), and Ian Bassin (MacArthur Fellow, and Co-Founder/Executive Director of Protect Democracy) discussed this exciting new initiative and what to expect in the coming year.
